Comprehensive Care, Innovative New Procedures
The Sequoia Hospital Lung Cancer program, in a unique collaboration with physicians from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, offers Bay Area lung cancer patients a comprehensive, dedicated multidisciplinary approach to lung cancer treatment.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in this country. According to the American Cancer Society, there will be approximately 215,020 new cases of lung cancer in the United States in 2008, and approximately 161,840 people will die of the disease. More people die of lung cancer than of breast, prostate, colon, liver, melanoma, and kidney cancers combined.
Sequoia’s Lung Cancer program offers:
• State-of-the-art early detection for lung cancer in higher risk individuals
• Expert diagnostic and pulmonary medicine care
• Comprehensive medical and surgical care, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, to individuals diagnosed with any stage of lung cancer
• University-level care right in your community hospital
Dr. David Jablons, cardiothoracic surgeon, specializing in thoracic oncology, and chief of general thoracic surgery at UCSF Medical Center, comes to Sequoia Hospital for weekly consultations and to perform surgery. Patients with complex cases that require the surgical team of a university medical center will have direct access and entry into the world-renowned UCSF program while having their day-to-day follow-up care delivered at Sequoia. All other patients will receive their treatments, including advanced lung cancer surgery if needed, at Sequoia under the care of the multidisciplinary lung cancer program.
"The goal of this program is to add university expertise to an institution that already has great care and tremendous talent," said Dr. Jablons.
Already on the forefront of lung cancer care, Sequoia has now launched a promising, new initiative that may advance the battle against lung cancer, the nation’s leading cause of cancer deaths. The Lung Cancer Early Detection program is the brainchild of lung cancer survivor Bonnie Addario and is being funded by the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, a large and innovative philanthropic organization devoted exclusively to eradicating lung cancer. Sequoia’s Lung Cancer Early Detection program is a participating member of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP), administered by the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University.
Sequoia Hospital wishes to make a difference for residents of our community and has launched a comprehensive program that aims to detect lung cancer as early as possible and if and when detected, provide outstanding, comprehensive and expert medical and surgical care for all stages of this disease.
To learn more about the lung cancer program or the early detection of lung cancer, please call Kate Tully R.N., B.S.N., lung cancer early detection program coordinator at (650) 367-LUNG (5864).
